Italian verbs have two voices. A verb is considered to be in the active voice when the subject of the sentence performs the action of the verb, such as Marco ha preparato le valigie - Marco packed the suitcases. A verb is considered to be in the passive voice when the subject is acted on by the verb, such as La scena e stata filmata da un famoso regista - The scene was filmed by a famous director. Only transitive verbs with a clear direct object can be changed from the active voice to the passive voice.

You start everyday with reflexive verbs - verbi riflessivi. These verbs revert the action to the subject such as Mi lavo - I wash myself. In Italian reflexive pronouns - I pronomi reflessivi are needed when conjugating reflexive verbs.

In Italian there are three important verbs known as verbi servili or verbi modali - modal verbs. These verbs are potere - to be able to, can, volere - to want, dovere - to have to, must, can take on their given meaning and stand alone. Functioning to modify the meaning of these verbs, they can follow the infinitive of other verbs.

There are a group of Italian verbs that are conjugated with two different pronoun particles. Included in this group of verbs is meravigliarsene and provarcisi and are called pronominal verbs - verbi pronominali. There are still grouped with either the first conjugation, second conjugation or the third conjugation according to the ending of their infinitives.

To the dismay of students of all levels and abilities there is no hard and fast set of rules governing the grammatical usage of these next verbs with prepositions. There are certain verbs, which are followed by specific prepositions such as a, di, per, and su.

Because of the unspecified rules with these verbs and preposition usage, students must familiarize themselves with tables, which include Italian verbs and expressions followed by specific prepositions as well as verbs followed directly by the infinitive.

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